Enterprise blockchain started to take shape in 2016, a time when companies like IBM (NYSE:IBM) began to leverage private networks for supply chain management. It was also during 2016 that authors Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott wrote and published Blockchain Revolution, a book that examines the way that blockchain will transform a number of industries.
Following the release of Blockchain Revolution, Don Tapscott — who is also co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute — published Supply Chain Revolution in August 2020. Given the timing of the book’s publication, Supply Chain Revolution detailed the way the COVID-19 pandemic exposed glitches throughout supply chains across the world, further explaining how blockchain could be used to solve these challenges.